King Soopers and UFCW have been attempting to hammer out a new contract for weeks, but so far Local 7’s demands for increased pay, better benefits, the elimination of a two-tiered salary system that punishes newly hired workers, job outsourcing to non-union workers and stronger health and safety protections in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic have not been met, the union said. The union is rallying against “unfair labor practices, (and for) better safety and pay.” “We’re fighting for better everything,” Gigi Jones, a King Soopers front-end supervisor and bookkeeper who’s been with the company and union since 2013, told BizWest. At other King Soopers locations in the region and in Northern Colorado, employment contracts have yet to expire, but an expansion of the strike is possible in the coming weeks. In the Boulder Valley, employees at Boulder, Broomfield, Louisville and Westminster are striking. Wednesday and could last for three weeks. The worker action, organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, began at 5 a.m. Employees at the King Soopers at 30th Avenue and Arapahoe Avenue hold signs Wednesday during the UFCW Local 7 strike in Boulder. Unionized King Soopers workers in Boulder County joined compatriots across the Denver region in a strike Wednesday in hopes of prying pay- and benefits-related concessions out of the Kroger Co.
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